MARLBOROUGH HOPE TO WIN SHIELD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18543, 17 August 1928, Page 10

MARLBOROUGH HOPE TO WIN SHIELD.

WAIRARAPA TEAM MUCH WEAKENED. Per Press Association. CARTERTON, August 17. The Marlborough footballers have arrived at Carterton for the Ran furl y Shield mat'h to-morrow. Mowat will not be playing. Define replacing him on the side of the scrum, and Glennie taking Devine’s place in the back row. Payne is second emergency. Wairarapa will be -without the services of six players who have gone south with the North Island team. Roach, who was not originally selected, has now gone. With Cooke out from the five-eighths line. Roach gone from full back, and the forwards depleted, Marlborough is confident of lifting the Shield. The weather is cloudy, but the rain has ceased. LEAGUE. BAITOEBS CLtTB. The team to represent the Rangers Club at Richmond Park, at 3 p.m., will be chosen from the following:—E. Barnes, H. Thompson, W. Barnes, F.

Forsythe, S. Beaton, W. Geekie, D. Fraser, F. Robb, H. Sloan, W. Bond, W. Bailey, A- M’Diarmid, J. Boyd. ASSOCIATION. ADDIVOTOV CLUB. Woolston Park. 1.30 p.m.—L. Walsh, J. Shaw, A. Purdon, G. Mo'oar, J. Logan] L#. Blackler, R. Gray, L. Kent, F. Stevens. J. Wilson, J. Valiant, A. Sealev, A. Philp, F. O’Connor, Duke, Rotherweij. Addington Reserve, 1 p.m.—F. Hoy, Metcalf, J. Parrish, C. Dudley, Dunn. Reed, ‘ Lackler, M. Burnard, Walker, Horne, A. Bruce. J. Mercer, T. Duncan, B. Crawe, W. Thrower, Wright, Jeffries.